Dr. Christine’s Presentation Topic at our 2023 Summit:

Tits and Tummy Time

Learn how the muscles of your neck, shoulders, abdominals, tongues, hands and feet can influence how your baby eats! Tummy time is a practical and fun way to get your baby stronger, so they can feed better and grow healthy.

About Dr. Christine:

Dr. Christine L. Kan, OTD, OTR/L, IBCLC, is an occupational therapist that specializes in lactation, feeding therapy, lip and tongue ties, and infant development. She is an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and an infant feeding specialist. She has experience helping premature infants, medically fragile infants, and infants with tethered oral tissues breast/bottle-feed. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a doctorate in occupational therapy in 2013, focusing on feeding interventions for children with special needs. She is trained in Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, Infant and Pediatric Neurodevelopmental training (NDT), Neonatal Oral Motor and Assessment Scale (NOMAS), Neonatal Touch and Massage Certification (NTMC), and has her advanced practice in feeding, eating, and swallowing (SWC). She currently works part time as a neonatal occupational therapist in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and part time in private practice.

Her children both had lip and tongue ties and she understands the stress of ties and how it impacts breast/chest-feeding. She hopes with her own personal experience and medical training, she can connect with parents, share their burdens, and support their breast/chest-feeding relationship. Christine has 3 children and is currently tandem nursing her toddler and infant!